Hacking Management

This presentation was developed for GoLab in Firenze Italy and delivered as the closing keynote of the conference. The presentation talks about legacy, looking both backwards and forwards. It talks about the legacy of langauage Go inherited and how it is paying respect to that legacy. It concludes talking about the legacy Go hopes to leave behind.

This presentation was developed for Curry On and delivered as the closing keynote of the conference. The presentation describes the many inspirations and influences of the Go programming language and goes into detail about how we shaped and created the language.

As my tenure on the Drupal Association was concluding, I was asked to give the Keynote for DrupalCon. It was my privilage to talk about my 20 year history with open source and how much I learned from and valued the Drupal community. Dries, Drupal’s founder gave a touching shoutout on his blog afterwards.

This talk is an overview of the entire Go project. It covers “what we’ve done”, “why we did it” and “where we are going” as a project. It highlights our accomplishments, challenges and what the Go Project is doing to address our challenges.

It was delievered as the closing Keynote for Gophercon Brasil in 2017.

This talk is an overview of the entire Go project. It covers “what we’ve done”, “why we did it” and “where we are going” as a project. It highlights our accomplishments, challenges and what the Go Project is doing to address our challenges.

I am at GolangUK in London, having just finished giving the opening keynote.
I was a bit more nervous than usual, in part, due to the length of time since my last talk, and in part I was representing the entire Go project for the first time in a keynote.
This talk is an overview of the entire Go project. It covers “what we’ve done”, “why we did it” and “where we are going” as a project.
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I wrote this presentation with Jessie Frazelle. She made it look very nice and delivered it at the “Go Contributor Workshop” at GopherCon. Some of the instructions are clearly only relevant to that workshop, but the vast majority of the presentation should be helpful to anyone wanting to contribute to Go.